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SATELLITE 07-20-2010 07:01 PM

Coral id
 
need help tring to figure out what this is. thanks


http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...icture1077.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...icture1068.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...icture1070.jpg

Zoaelite 07-20-2010 07:08 PM

That's a tough one, have any night photos? I would say its a galaxea fascicularis.

Here is a similar one http://directsealife.com/shop/images...scicularis.jpg

josie 07-20-2010 07:10 PM

pavona
it's very agressive, dont put it near other coral

nlreefguy 07-20-2010 07:12 PM

It looks like a type of hydnophora to me...

delo978 07-20-2010 07:23 PM

I think it looks more like a green flowerpot myself

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/image...Pot_Red_ps.jpg

there's a green one at my LFS

reefwars 07-20-2010 08:04 PM

Gonna second the goniopora(flowerpot) I have a Large green one it looks like tahr when disturbed, they don't gave a reputation of living past the firstyeR something like less than 10% make it???

reeferious 07-20-2010 10:50 PM

galaxia
 
kick my ass if i'm wrong but it's an unhappy looking galaxia.

Myka 07-20-2010 11:13 PM

Please take a photo when the tissue is retracted so we can see the skeleton. I am almost 100% sure it is not Galaxea nor Goniopora, but I need to see the skeleton to ID for sure.

Buzz 07-20-2010 11:29 PM

http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/t...IMGP0925-1.jpg
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/t...f/IMGP0547.jpg
This is a happy galaxea.
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/t...f/P7200159.jpg
This is kind of ****ed off.
The skeleton looks totally different than yours.

Myka 07-20-2010 11:55 PM

The photos that SATELLITE posted show a coral with "mouths" in between the "clusters" of tissue. Neither Galaxea nor Goniopora have this trait.

Wayne 07-21-2010 12:00 AM

I'm pretty sure that its not a Gonipora, the heads are all wrong.

delo978 07-21-2010 12:02 AM

i still say flowerpot

Wayne 07-21-2010 12:14 AM

Heres some Gonipora Pictures I just took. I gave him a little massage to get him closer to his skeleton :wink: Bottom right is right down to skeleton.

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/y...h/IMG_2362.jpg

Here is him fully extended:

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/y...h/IMG_2208.jpg

whatcaneyedo 07-21-2010 01:00 AM

Hydnophora microconos maybe? http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...ora+microconos http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...ora+microconos

nlreefguy 07-21-2010 01:59 AM

I still say it's a hydnophora, those tissue bumps look too much like hydnophores to be anything else really.

SATELLITE 07-21-2010 04:18 AM

i have a gonipora and a pagoda coral. its not either one.

i think i seen it. encrusting horn coral??? hydnophora.

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/produ...pid=1432&did=3


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